James Nolan (author)

James Nolan is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and translator. A regular contributor to "Boulevard," his work has appeared in "New Orleans Noir" (Akashic Books), "Utne Reader", "The Washington Post", and Andrei Codrescu's "Exquisite Corpse" among other magazines, anthologies, and newspapers. He has translated the work of Spanish-language poets Pablo Neruda and Jaime Gil de Biedma. He is a fifth-generation native of New Orleans.

Nolan received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has gone on to teach Literature and Creative Writing at universities in Florida, San Francisco, Barcelona, Madrid, and Beijing. Until recently, he was the Writer-in-Residence at New Orleans' Tulane and Loyola Universities, where he now directs the Loyola Writing Institute.

He has been the recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts grant and two Fulbright Fellowships. His recent collection of short stories, "Perpetual Care", won the 2007 Jefferson Press Prize.

He lives in the French Quarter.

Works

Poetry

*"Why I Live In The Forest", Wesleyan University Press, 1974 (ISBN 0-8195-1074-2)
*"What Moves Is Not The Wind", Wesleyan University Press, 1980 (ISBN 0-8195-1099-8)

Poetry in Translation

*Pablo Neruda, "Stones Of The Sky", Copper Canyon Press, 1987, (ISBN 1-5565-9006-7)
*Jaime Gil de Biedma, "Longing: Selected Poems", City Lights Books, 1993 (ISBN 0-8728-6277-1)

Fiction

*"Perpetual Care: Stories", Jefferson Press, 2008 (ISBN 0-9800-1641-X)

Essays and Criticism

*"Poet-Chief: The Native American Poetics of Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda", University of New Mexico Press, 1994, (ISBN 0-8263-1484-8)
*"Fumadores en manos de un dios enfurecido: Ensayos a caballo entre varios mundos", Madrid: Enigma Editores

External links

* [http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2008/04/author_james_nolans_perpetual.html Times-Picayune Profile]
* [http://www.corpse.org/content/view/123/36/ Essay on Hurricane Katrina in Exquisite Corpse]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202677_pf.html Essay on Hurricane Katrina in Washington Post]